Christian Civilization

Christian Civilization is the Only Civilization
— In a Sense, Of Course

The manifesto of Christian Civilization, defending the truth of Christianity as a comprehensive worldview. The existence of an absolutely rational God is the necessary precondition for human rationality, and is thus necessary for the possibility of civilization.

Van Til Reconstructed

Solving the Puzzles and
Clearing the Confusion

Christian Civilization is the Only Civilization - In a Sense, Of Course: A Restatement of Cornelius Van Til's Argument for Christian Theism. (Same as essay to the left.)
Van Til Diagrammed - Van Til's vivid word-pictures made into real pictures with non-flowery explanations to aid his confused readers in understanding his critique of unbelief.
The Scope and Limits of Van Til's Transcendental Argument: A Response to John Frame - Refuting the claim that Cornelius Van Til demanded that one argument prove the whole of Christianity and affirming the use of empirical evidence in Van Til's apologetic program.

The Coming of Christ's Kingdom:
The End-Times and the Triumph of the Gospel

A Bible study on the bright future of civilization's progress into greater justice, peace, and conversion to Christianity. Presents various Christian views of eschatology and defends the view called postmillennialism.

Christian Views of Church and State

An overview of several different Christian views on the proper relationship between the institutions of Church and State, and between Biblical law and State law. Shows that the phrase "separation of church and state" can mean many different types of relationships between politics and religion.

Digest of God's Law

Short summaries of applications made of Biblical law to all areas of civil law by authors of all religious persuasions, arranged topically like Westlaw keynotes. The Digest is posted using Blogger, allowing reader comments.

Also see Van Til FEM (offsite)

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Some of the videos below can seen for free at http://youtube.com/jcr4runner.

Apologetics (Defending the Faith)

Answers to Arguments Against Christianity
Atheists Confess: We Can't Make Sense of the World - The failure of secular thought, in their own words.
Greg Bahnsen lectures on YouTube
The Real Jesus - (Video) A refutation of Peter Jennings' documentary that relied on Jesus Seminar scholars to question the reliability of the Gospel accounts of Jesus.
The Inspiration, Inerrancy, and Authority of the Bible - A video seminar by John Piper.
How Should We Then Live? - Dr. Francis Schaeffer's spectacular video series on the rise and decline of Western culture from a Christian perspective.
A Review of The Human Faces of God by Thom Stark - A book full of bad reasons to reject the God of the Bible. Here's a second, longer response, and a version posted to the website of Associates for Biblical Research.

History and Science

The Light Has Come: Quotations on the History of Christian Contributions to the Progress of Civilization - Christianity brought civilization out of the dark ages of paganism.
Myths About Past (Quasi-)Christian Civilization - Christians haven't been perfect, but many of their sins are created or enhanced by secular mythology.

Ethics

Lord of Soul and State: The Duty of Christians to Mix Politics and Religion - The only God that can save your soul for eternity is one that rules the State, and everything else.
Judge Others. Jesus Said To - Nonjudgmentalism is moral disarmament.
Homosexuality: Rhetoric and Reality - "Homophobia" is name-calling, not an argument.
How Not to Answer the Pro-Abortionist: A Review of Francis Beckwith's "Politically Correct Death" - Beckwith converted to Roman Catholicism in 2007. His book from 1993 shows that even then he was not far from Catholicism, given his view of natural law.
God's Law and Society (video)
"Are there Secular Reasons?" by Stanley Fish - No. You can't squeeze moral values about justice out of brute empirical facts. (Or get knowledge either, but this essay is about ethics.)

Economics

An Economic Commentary on the Bible: A Multi-Volume Exposition by Gary North - God created the wealth of the world, and long-term prosperity is God's blessing for obedience to His law.
A Biblically Informed Response to the Evangelical Immigration Table - This Table of Evangelicals who are ignorant of God's law is set to bankrupt the U.S. financially and spiritually.

Eschatology (End Times)

The Beast of Revelation Identified - A video presentation by Ken Gentry on the preterist interpretation of Revelation, followed by Dr. Gentry answering objections.